Subject: Re: Sendmail not responding
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 06:32:11 MST
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Terry Allen wrote:
> Hi again,
> Just a question in addition to my others ver the weekend which
> nobody answered yet. Slowly getting used to YDL 2.1, but came up with a
> problem with Sendmail not accepting connections from a remote machine. In
> Webmin I added the IP address of the remote machine, checked manually that
> the file had been modified, but when I try to send an email from a PC using
> Outlook Express, I get the following error:
>
> "The connection to the server has failed. Account:'203.53.37.169',
> Server:'203.53.37.169', Protocol:SMTP,Port:25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket
> Error:10061, Error Number:0x800CCCoe"
>
> I can only assume that Sendmail isn't working as expected. I don't
> know how to test sendmail on the machine, so I don't know if I can send out
> from the machine itself. Hope someone can help
>
>
You need to enable sensmail to listen for remote connections, the default
is to not. install the sendmail-cf package and edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
and either comment out (using the phrase "dnl") the DAEMON_OPTIONS line,
or add your public interfaces to it. After editing and saving the file
run the command "m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf"
-n
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nathan hruby - nhruby@arches.uga.edu
computer support specialist
department of drama and theatre
http://www.drama.uga.edu/
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